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Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-22-2003
10 days...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-22-2003
9 days...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Ebony - 01-22-2003
You know, you're not helping me deal with the fact that I have 10,000 words due to my line editor for an Earthdawn supplement due on the 31st. The missing of said deadline, for the record, is not my fault. Life has conspired against me this month (someone set my car on FIRE!).
Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor (and Staff Writer), Living Room Games
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Re: Countdown... - offsides - 01-23-2003
Oy! That's not good...
Blow a keyboard yourself
Offsides
Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large
Re: Countdown... - Ebony - 01-23-2003
Quote:Only if it buys me dinner, first.
Blow a keyboard yourself
Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
www.lrgames.com
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-24-2003
Quote:Sorry, Ebony, but I think I have you beat by an order of magnitude... This is just one of my ways of blowing off the stress.
You know, you're not helping me deal with the fact that I have 10,000 words due
8 days...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-24-2003
Quote:On fire? Jesus Harold Christ. How did... no, never mind. I don't think I want to know.
someone set my car on FIRE!
Here's hoping your insurance company is nice to you...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-24-2003
7 days...
And I'm quite optimistic. Things are going well so far.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Valles - 01-25-2003
Knock on wood.
Blessed be.
-n
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
Re: Countdown... - Ebony - 01-25-2003
Quote:Drunk parked next to me, passed out with his foot on accelerator. Engine got too hot and caught his car on fire. Thusly, mine was caught on fire as well. Poor dumb idiot died of smoke inhalation in the hospital.
On fire? Jesus Harold Christ. How did... no, never mind. I don't think I want to know.
Quote:Not as nice as I was hoping, but nice enough to give me book value for the car, which let me make a down payment on another one. It's just been a long month of hassles over it. Not to mention that I has just paid the car off a month before the fire. More proof that the Universe has a twisted sense of humor.
Here's hoping your insurance company is nice to you...
Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
www.lrgames.com
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-25-2003
God.
Well, at least you got something.
-- Bob, who is trying to reconcile an entirely arbitrary Russian shapeshifting advantage published a couple years ago with the new system he built.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-26-2003
I seem to have forgotten to post on Saturday. Oh, well, I was busy wriiting...
So:
6 days...
5 days...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-27-2003
4 days... and writing frantically. Why do these things always look like a lot less work from further out? You'd think after 7 books I'd know better...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-28-2003
3 days...
It's looking better than it did this time yesterday.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-30-2003
2 days...
And it's looking worse now.
Fortunately I took Friday off from work, which gives me another ten hours or so.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Bob Schroeck - 01-30-2003
1 day.
And I honestly don't know if I'll make it. It'll be close. But I'm a little more optimistic than I was yesterday.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Countdown... - Ebony - 01-31-2003
Why do I have this image of Bob perched precariously atop a Saturn V booster that is starting to tremble with pre-launch tests?
Ebony the Black Dragon
Senior Editor, Living Room Games
www.lrgames.com
(Steve Jackson's not in Houston, but it's close)
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
Re: Countdown... - offsides - 01-31-2003
Quote:Drunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At LargeDrunkard's Walk Forum Moderator and Prereader At Large
Why do I have this image of Bob perched precariously atop a Saturn V booster that is starting to tremble with pre-launch tests?Quote:
Sounds like a good time for Shepard's Prayer..
Re: Countdown... - Logan Darklighter - 01-31-2003
Quote:
Sounds like a good time for Shepard's Prayer..
You mean Alan Shepard's prayer? The one where he's sitting atop the Mercury redstone and saying, "Oh Lord, please don't let me fuck up!"
(Good Luck, Bob! ^_^)
-Logan
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Legolas - Obviously an Elvish word meaning "Gatling Gun".
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Reset... - Bob Schroeck - 01-31-2003
In an email I got last night, the project editor said, "You know, we're not going to be around to see this thing until Monday anyway, so take until Sunday." So...
2 days...
And I'm actually feeling rather confident.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Reset... - Logan Darklighter - 01-31-2003
We have a hold in the countdown! I repeat - we have a hold in the countdown!
Y'know, that sort of thing always fills me with a sense of relief mingled with annoyance. Relief that I have more time. Annoyance of the variety that says, "You mean I could actually have slacked off just a bit? Geez!"
-Logan
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Legolas - Obviously an Elvish word meaning "Gatling Gun".
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Re: Reset... - Bob Schroeck - 02-03-2003
0 days, 5 hours, 35 minutes...
I'm at 101006 words. My target is 100K +/- 2000 words. I'm about to do one last pass to tweak and finish anything I've left undone. The only reason I'm on here right now is that I need whatever has been generated in the "Quick Brain Pick" thread, otherwise you wouldn't even see me until after midnight.
In order to make things fit, I've had to cut some neat stuff. I'm really sad about that... but look at it this way: that means that in about five months there'll be a new section hanging off the "My Worlds" page on my website, where you'll learn about the Xigana, the Bioprobes, and a few other beasties, if I decide to flesh'em out for the site.
Wish me luck. I'm in the final stretch.
-- Bob
(And when I recover, I can finally address all the messages that have been piling up in here since I went gonzo on the book.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Reset... - jonathanlennox - 02-03-2003
Quote:Ah, but is that midnight for you, or midnight for SJG? It's an hour difference...
otherwise you wouldn't even see me until after midnight.
--
Jonathan Lennox
master of the absolutely last minute
Re: Reset... - Bob Schroeck - 02-03-2003
Midnight for me, EST -- 11 PM for them. Doesn't matter, I didn't send it off until 12:55 AM anyway.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Re: Reset... - jonathanlennox - 02-03-2003
Quote:No, you got the time zone calculation backwards, unless I'm mis-remembering and they're actually in Nova Scotia. Midnight CST is 1 a.m. EST.
Midnight for me, EST -- 11 PM for them. Doesn't matter, I didn't send it off until 12:55 AM anyway.
So you were on time!